DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Want to spice up your presentations a little? Tired of the same old “default” themes that Powerpoint brings along for the ride? Check out these 20 free Powerpoint templates that…well…don’t suck.
http://workawesome.com/software/20-free-powerpoint-templates-that-dont-suck/…
Ana Maria Menezes has just published a 53 page free ebook titled 20 WEBTOOLS Applied to Teaching. In addition to some well-known services like Animoto, Ana Maria has included some lesser-known tools that could be particulary useful for ESL/ELL instruction.…
Brainstorming is a technique employed to gather ideas about a certain topic. When we have gathered many ideas, we start filtering the good from the bad; as a result, we achieve the best ideas we can think of. Whether we …
Feature article describing types of cloud computing services, advantages of cloud computing, discussion of future trends, and examples of cloud computing in action. “Many CIOs do indeed view the cloud as a key strategy for the future,” write the authors, …
Social media and networking-oriented web browser Flock has become somewhat schizophrenic today. Touted as “the social browser,” Flock is basically another web browser — previously Firefox now Google Chrome — with a bunch of social networking features on top.
We’ve all been there. You’re interested in a website or a download, but the site wants your email address before letting you near the goods. But what if you could instead supply a temporary email address that was forwarded to …
QlipBoard is a free software that lets users easily record instructional videos and add things like annotations, screenshots and other media to them. The resulting videos are produced in .WMV format and known as Qlippits. It’s an all in one …
Testmoz is a simple test generating application created by Matt Johnson, an undergraduate student at Washington State University, Vancouver.
DocTranslator is a nice web based translator that can translate your documents, such as Word documents, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations and text files, to and from more than 50 languages. It uses the Google Translate API to convert documents.
Project-based learning is powerful because it is student-centered and real world driven. It allows for a more creative, in-depth investigation of a topic with more meaning and relevance for the learner. Whether the students are working on real world problems, …
Alarmingly a recent survey of higher education professionals showed that more than half the surveyed faculty members think Twitter has no future in academia or potential use in higher education.
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=123-1…
Please be sure to check out the newly available GoogleApps for Education Demo site, which allows you to do all sorts of stuff. Thanks to Dana Nguyen from GoogleApps for Education for sharing this information!
Google Books is a Google service that makes discovering book content easier for us on the web. It started way back in 2004 and since then its mission has been to digitally scan and archive tons of book. But Google …
Searching for images has long been a neglected feature in common search engines. You had to rely on good tags, otherwise it was difficult to find just the right image. Tracing images across the net was out of the question. …
Just in time for the start of the World Cup later this week (today, June 11th), Google has released new Google Maps Streetview imagery for South Africa. The imagery includes views of the interior of the stadiums in which the …